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There are real infrastructural reasons it's harder to do in North America compared to Europe, but that's not it.

Biking is relatively popular and definitely feasible within ten km or so from most city or town cores here in Scandinavia, not just the metropolises.

You need to travel more. Plenty of people in Canadian cities rely on public transport just fine.

The Netherlands would like to have a talk with you.

Tell me you’ve never slipped on ice riding a bike in Europe in the winter without telling me you’ve never slipped on ice riding a bike in Europe in the winter.

Europe has a concept novel to most Americans which is known as public transport.

I’ve lived in Europe for 18 years.

People bike all winter in Germany and the Netherlands.

You do understand that coats exist, right? I live in New England. I bought a heated jacket for less than the price of two months of parking.